International Journal of Algebra, Vol. 4, 2010, no. 1, 25 - 37 2-Simple Injective Rings Zhu Zhanmin Department of Mathematics, Jiaxing University Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, 314001, P.R. China zhanmin
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[email protected] Abstract A ring R is called right 2-simple injective if, for every 2-generated right ideal I of R, every R-linear map from I to R with simple image extends to R. The class of right 2-simple injective rings is broader than that of right simple injective rings and right 2-injective rings . We study characterizations and properties of right 2-simple injective rings, several conditions under which right 2-simple injective rings are QF -rings are given. Mathematics Subject Classification: 16D50, 16L30, 16L60 Keywords: 2-simple injective rings; Kasch rings; semilocal rings; Semiper- fect rings; QF -rings Throughout this article, R is an associative ring with identity, and all modules are unitary. As usual, J(R)orJ for short, Z(RR)(Z(RR)) and Soc(RR)(Soc(RR)) denote respectively the Jacobson radical, the left (right) singular ideal and the left (right) socle of R. The left annihilators of a subset X of R is denoted by lR(X) (or l(X) for short), and the right annihilators of a subset X of R is denoted by rR(X) (or r(X) for short). If M is an R-module, the notation N ⊆max M means that N is a maximal submodule of M, and we write N ⊆⊕ M if N is a direct summand of M for convenience.